DistrictDeacon
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I just received this email this past weekend from a friend of mine who carries.
"Guys, Delta Defense posted last week that they are running a special on their one day skills training class. For a group of ten or more they will do it for $200 a person plus ammo. It is normally $500 a person.
I know me and Kent are in. Is anyone else interested in taking the class? It is about 500 or more rounds and is a must take class for anyone who is or wants to carry a pistol and know how to correctly use them in different situations. "
I know it is probably hopeless to present people who carry weapons as non crazy, but it is a very real possibility. These are people I know who are very responsible with their ownership, and take liberty with carrying a weapon at their leisure. I think this thread has run its course, so I think this is a good last post. The 2nd amendment guarantees the right to bear arms. In order to revoke that right an immediate threat to the general well being must be presented. No one on this thread has presented anything other than conjectures and platitudes (despite RJ's overwhelming evidence...not even going down that rabbit hole).
The reality is that the statistics (feel free to look them up. A simple google search will give you all you need) don't support conceal and carry increasing the threat of violence to the public, and in fact there are plenty of studies (cited gleefully by the NRA) that show modest decreases in violent gun crimes. I would hazard to say that the evidence is inconclusive either way and that both sides are shading results to their POV. Either way you look at it, the evidence is inconclusive on this issue, and that is not a compelling argument to revoke a right guaranteed by the 2nd Amendment.
The Newton mother was, by all reports, a very responsible gun owner too. Up until the point, of course, she allowed her guns to be use to kill 26 people, most of them children.